November 21, 1846

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Features

The Great Leeghwater Engine

A Glance at the Polytechnic

Departments

Departments

The Fancy Museam

The Wife's Appeal

Decidedly Cool

Emigration to Palestine

A Flourishing School

The White Mice

Late from Europe

A Male Boat on Fire

Michigan Central Railroad

Modern Consistency

Opening of the Cambridge and Lexington Railroad

Albany knickerbocker

A Rare Case

My Thoughts

New York and New Haven Railroad

Railroad Speed

Shakers Wanted

Virginia Figs

Very Kind

Successful Sport

Singular Marriages

Who is a Coward?

The Casting Vote

Dancing Prohibited

The Engle's Flight

The Farmer Turned Soldier

Connecticut River Railroad

The Central Railroad

Cape Cod Branch

Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Rail Road

Chemistry

Information to Persons Having Business to Transact at the Patent Office

New Railroad Invention

Improvement in Bridges

Improvement in Glass Furnaces

Improvement in Ever Pointed Pencils

Improvement in Shower Baths

Improvement in Tide Mills

Mount Hand

Willis's Sacred Poems

Gen. Scott in the Cabinet

More Furnaces

Vegetable Butter

New Factory

Price Current in Ohio

Atmospheric Phenomena

Brick Kilns

Small vs. Large Type

Architecture

The Hutchinson Family

Manufacture of Iron

Magnetic Telegraph

Our Neighbor-in-Law

Navigation Impeded

Post-Office Reform

Quaint Instructions

What they Say of Us

Scientific American

Silent Carriage Wheels

A Nice Point in Philosophy

A New Fashioned Boat

The Manufacture of Glass

To Correspondents

The Invisible Lady

Gun Cotton

Earthquakes

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